Teriyaki chicken with noodle salad, housemade hummus and pita bread, turkey grinder with seasonal fruit and vegetables — they're all on the rotating lunch menu at Burlington's Andy A Dog Williams Skatepark this summer. The site is one of many around the state where kids ages 18 and under can grab a free meal every weekday this summer. (Paid Post)
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The Sara Holbrook Community Center said in a press release that “Ongoing workforce shortages and financial losses related to lack of adequate state and local reimbursement for such programs has hastened this decision.”
Perhaps the one issue that has the most bipartisan support in Texas politics might be a desire to see the state standardized testing radically reformed or eliminated entirely. Both Republicans and Democrats have criticized the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) for years now.
Jarrell Watts, Elementary program director, Sara Holbrook Community Center, Burlington The ever-changing world of hybrid learning left some working parents searching for help. When in-person school was not an option, they needed a safe and nurturing place to send their kids. Since August, Jarrell Watts, elementary program director of Burlington s Sara Holbrook Community Center, has been providing that support. click image In the fall of 2020, the North Avenue center served as a free, full-day remote learning hub one of more than 80 sites in the state where some 35 students in kindergarten through fifth grade could get academic support and take part in enrichment activities when they weren t in school. Watts supervised a staff of about 11, plus a handful of college interns, who brought their passions from art to tinkering, gardening to Italian language to create engaging program
Recognizing community partners for their flexibility and adaptation in the face of COVID
This year our community partners had to adapt as much as faculty to changed circumstances. They had to go remote with us, offering remote feedback, engagement and activities. They had to consider whether an internship or project could even be done remotely, redesign entire projects and, in some cases, manage COVID protocols and precautions to allow students to participate directly. We conceived of this COVID-era version of our community partner award while debriefing the semester with Mary Val Palumbo in Nursing. Mary Val was raving about a particular community partner, who had just really taken it on herself to help students complete their service-learning activities. Thanks to the following partner and the professor s story of her work we opened the nominations and are privileged to recognize these 10 partners for continuing to work with us during the pandemic.